Focus switching away every 10 secs

MC 2018.4 on OS 10.12.6. Every 10 seconds something is taking focus from whatever application is foremost, holding it for a few seconds, and then releasing it. I opened Force Quit to try and see if I could tell what it is, but there's nothing there aside from Finder and MC. I've quit all the stuff in the upper right (dropbox, adobe creative cloud, etc) that I could find. Any ideas of where else to look?

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Re: Focus switching away every 10 secs

Thanks, Kevin. (I'm a PC person, I didn't even know there WAS a console!) The producer and I looked around in the console and found what appears to be the error message driving the problem, but couldn't tell what application was causing the error. The producer spent some time chatting online with Apple tech support, but didn't get anywhere.

I'll be back there in a couple of weeks for another job, and will try to figure it out again then.

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Re: Focus switching away every 10 secs

Ok, I'm back at this facility, so here are a couple of screen shots of the Mac console. I aplogize for my stupidity, but I don't know enough about Mac OS to know what I'm looking at. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Re: Focus switching away every 10 secs

The two issues I see in your console are related to com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4 and com.safenet.sentinel.kext. They must both be in the /Library/LaunchDaemons folder and are crashing and then trying to relaunch and crashing again.

Postgre SQL is a database manager. I’m not sure what software you have that is calling for that, you might try removing the file from LaunchDaemons and leaving it on your desktop to see what happens. (I don’t have that file on my system.)

The other one is related to the Sentinel drivers, which Avid does use for dongles. Are you on a dongle? Or is there other software you’re using a USB key for? If not, you could also try moving that file to the desktop.

I might recommend a complete Manual Uninstall of MC, just to make sure any other conflicts are cleared up and then reinstall, including the Sentinel driver if needed.

The instructions, while slightly out of date, are in the START HERE thread at the top of the forum. If you need assistance, let me know.

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)